You and your best girlfriend love to have a good time, which usually entails a couple glasses of wine while you enjoy a spa pedicure, followed by a fabulous meal and decadent dessert at a trendy restaurant.

Or, if you’re low on cash, you like to try your hands at new homemade recipes while you sip cocktails and gear up for a girl’s night in watching “chick flicks” and treating yourself to popcorn and chocolate.

Your friendship is a recipe for dieting disaster! It can be difficult to stick to your guns about dieting and exercising when you have a best buddy who likes to indulge right alongside you.

But do you have to end your friendship over a calorie-overload problem? Not at all. Instead of being a bore or hermit, enlist the help of your friend to get in shape. Join a yoga class together or partner up to take a course on healthy cooking. If your health is as important to you as your friendship, it should be to her too.

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